Chris Mansell

Résumé

PO Box 94
Berry 2535 NSW Australia
Phone/fax (61) 02 4464 1432
Mobile 0414 267 665

Education

• Bachelor of Economics, University of Sydney, 1975
• Diploma in Education, Sydney Teachers College, 1976
• NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) Playwright's Studio, 1988

Awards & Fellowships

• Shining like a Jinx, Winner of Amelia Chapbook Award (USA), 1988
• 'Yarmul', winner of the Queensland Premier's Poetry Award, 1993
• Writing Fellowship, Literature Board, Australia Council, 1993
• Community Writer's Fellowship, Literature Board, Australia Council, 1994
• National Book Council, Banjo Awards, Day Easy Sunlight Fine Short-listed 1995
• Shoalhaven International Women's Day Award, 1998

Publications (for full details see separate Publications List )

Books of poetry

• Head, Heart, & Stone (Fling, 1982)
• Redshift/Blueshift (Five Islands Press, 1988)
• Day Easy Sunlight Fine in Hot Collation (Penguin Books, 1995)
• Mortifications & Lies (forthcoming)

Children's book

• Little Wombat (New Holland, Sydney,1996)

Small selections of poetry & prose

• Delta (CPP, 1978)
• Taking heart (CPP, 1987)
• Zoom poems (CPP, 1988)
• On the railway near the sea (1992);Words on Words (1998);Being there at the birth (1998); Epitaphs (1998); Death of a poet (1988); the other river (1998)

Audio cassette

• Raptors Blue (Well Sprung Productions, 1989) with Rob Cousins

In major anthologies of poetry or prose

• Australian Verse from 1885: A continuum, ed. Geoffrey Dutton (Currey O'Neill Ross)
• Contemporary Australian Verse: an anthology, ed. J.Leonard (Houghton Mifflin)
• Off the Record, ed. PiO (Penguin)
• The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poetry ed. Jennifer Strauss (Oxford U. P., 1993)
• The Oxford Book of Australian Light Verse ed R.F.Brissenden and P.Grundy (O.U.P.)
• The Oxford Book of Australian Poetry ed P.Porter (OUP, 1997)
• The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets ed. K.Llewellyn&S.Hampton (Penguin)
• The Sting in the Wattle: Australian Satirical Verse ed. P. Neilsen (UQP, 1993)
• The Virago Book of Wicked Verse, ed. J.Dawson (Virago, UK, 1992)
• Influence ed. Peter Skrzynecki (Transworld, 1997)

Other anthologies of poetry or prose

• Anthology of the Illawarra, ed. Ron Pretty (Five Islands Press/U. Wollongong, 1994); Blithe Parrot (Cockatoo Coop); A book to perform poems by, ed. R.Harris and P.McFarlane (Australian Association for the Teaching of English, 1985); Cold Collation, (Cockatoo Coop); Eat the Ocean ed. Lizz Murphy (Literary Mouse Press, 1996); Flightpaths CDRom (Nextwave, Melbourne 1997); The Last Poet's Choice, ed. P.Roberts (Island); Mattoid Diary, (Mattoid, Deakin University); Minute to Midnight, ed. C.Kelen et al. (Red Spark Press); On the line, (Cockatoo Coop); Outlook: An Anthology of Australian Poetry for Senior Secondary Students, ed. R.Pretty (Longman Cheshire, 1992); Outrider: A year of Australian Literature 90 ed. M. Jurgensen (Outrider/Phoenix); Poetry and Gender, ed. D.Brooks and B.Walker (University of Queensland Press); She's a train and she dangerous: Women alone in the 1990s ed. Lizz Murphy (Literary Mouse Press, Perth, 1994); The Song in your Head: A Way to Write and Read Poetry ed. John Foulcher (Rigby Heinemann, forthcoming); Up from below: Poems of the 1980s, ed. I.Coates et al. (Women's Redress Press); Voices of the Downs: A collection of stories and poems by writers of the downs, ed. Kate Fawns and Angelica Fremd-Wiese (Writers at Work, 1994)

In journals

• (Australian except where otherwise noted.)

Poetry

• The Age Monthly Review, Amelia (USA), Antigonish Review (Canada), Antipodes (USA), Arc (Canada), Ariel (Canada), Aspect, The Australian, Black River Review (USA), Blast, Broadsheet, Carrionflower Writ, Compass poetry & prose, Descant (Canada) Fine Line Journal, Fling, Hatbox, Hecate, The Hollins Critic (USA), Honi Soit (Felt supplement), Image, Imago, Island, Kalliope (USA), Kunapipi (Denmark), LiNQ, Luna, Mattoid, Meanjin, New Poetry, Next Exit (Canada), Northern Perspective, Open Door, Orbis (UK), Outrider, Overland, P76, Paris/Atlantic international magazine of poetry (France), Pierian Spring (Canada), The Phoenix Review, Poetry Kanto (Japan), Poetry Australia, Post Modern Writing, Printed Matter (Japan), Prints, Prism International (Canada), Redoubt, Room of One's Own (Canada), Social Alternatives, Southerly, Southern Review, Stet: Australian Writing and Writers, Sydney Morning Herald, Syllable, TickleAce (Canada), Tweed, Ulitarra, Union Recorder, Verso, Voices, Wascana Review (Canada),Waves (Canada), Webbers, The West Australian, Westerly, Wisconsin Review (USA), Womanspeak, Zenos Poetry (UK).

Prose fiction

• The Age Monthly Review, Amelia (USA), Australian Short Stories, Blacksmith, Blast, Dandelion (Canada), The Famous Reporter, Fremantle Arts Review, Going Down Swinging, Hurricane Alice (USA), Image Magazine (USA), Imago, Inprint, Island, Kalliope (USA), LiNQ, Luna, Mattoid, Meanjin, The New Quarterly (Canada), Nimrod (USA), Otis Rush, Outrider, Power and Desire, The Phoenix Review, Prints, Prism International (Canada), Quadrant, Redoubt, Room of One's Own (Canada), Scarp, Southerly, Southern Review, Westerly, What (Canada), Womanspeak.

Performance

Live

• Live performances of poetry and prose in art galleries, museums, cafes, pubs, open air readings, theatres, tents, prisons, schools, universities, and conferences.

Recorded performances include

• Chris Mansell, 59 min. video of reading (Adflicks, ADFA, Canberra, 1994)
• part of Flightpaths CDRom (Nextwave, Melbourne 1997) and Nextwave website
• Raptors Blue audio cassette with Rob Cousins (Well Sprung Productions, 1989);
• part of The writers a series of films on writers produced by Richard Tipping (AFI Distribution Ltd)
• Various recordings made with ABC Radio National (and some regionals), 2SER-FM,
• 2-UUU, 2WN, 3CR, 5MMM, 5UV, 6NR etc

Playscripts (See details in Publications List )

• The Ground Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Nowra, November/December 1994 (with Shoalhaven Aboriginal youth)
• Green Lime McCool Rules the World, Gambit Theatre Co, Launceston, performed October 1990
• Horizon on fire, Horizon Circus, Hobart, performed, February 1991
• Pennies (rehearsed reading) NIDA, Sydney, 1988
• Singing Peaches, USQ, Toowoomba performed May 1990 (& performed)
• Some Sunny Day, commissioned for Australia Remembers project, October/November 1995
• Why? Mad Talent, Nowra, May/June 1995 (with Mad Talent)

Professional experience

Residencies

• Writer in residence, Curtin University, Perth, 1985
• Writer in residence, University of Southern Qld, Toowoomba, 1990
• Writer in residence, Kaleidoscope Community Arts, Hobart, 1990
• Writer in residence, Gambit Theatre Co, Launceston, 1990
• Editor in residence, Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney 1992
• Writer in residence, Katharine Susannah Prichard Centre, Perth, 1992
• Writer in the community, Shoalhaven City, 1994
• Artist in the community, Shoalhaven City Council, 1995
• Artist in residence, Bundanon, 1996
• Writer in residence, Flightpaths/Nextwave, Wagga Wagga Airport & Booranga Writers' Centre, 1996

Lecturing

• Workshops and lectures associated with residencies, conferences etc, and in prisons, schools, colleges and universities, and, 1981-2 Scola Creative writing courses for adults, Sydney and Bathurst; 1983-4 NSW Poets in Schools programme;1986 Parramatta Evening College writing course.
• 1987 to early 1989 Lecturer, creative writing, University of Wollongong (part time);
• 1989 Lecturer in creative writing at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur (full time);
• 1991 Adult writing course at Shoalhaven City Library;
• 1992 - present Lecturer in creative writing at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur (part time); Adult writing courses at Shoalhaven City Library; schools, colleges, writers groups, TAFE etc. School talks/visits/workshops throughout Australia, residencies, readings etc 1982 to present.

Editing

• University of Sydney, Publications after graduation - print production and editing.
• Founded the literary magazine Compass poetry & prose in 1978.
• Editor Compass 1978 -87.
• Freelance writer and editor 1981 onwards. Including: sub-editor The Bulletin's Literary Supplement (editor: Geoffrey Dutton); writer and editor University of Sydney annual reports 1983, 1984, 1986 (Senior editor: Professor Dame Leonie Kramer); reader with Redress Press and other publishers from time to time, and other editorial associations with literary magazines such as Scarp. 1989/90: Foreign correspondent Edge (Japan).
• Editor in residence, Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney (1992).

Tours & festivals include

• National Book Council Tour, Queensland, 1990
• Poets Union Tours, New South Wales 1983, 1996
• Festivals: Adelaide Festival, Sydney Festival, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, Darwin Poetry Festival, Montsalvat Poetry Festival, National Poetry Festival (Melbourne)

Memberships or offices

• Arts Shoalhaven, member 1991-
• Australian Copyright Council, Council Member 1983-84
• Australian Society of Authors, member 1988-
• International PEN Australia, member 1992-1996
• NSW Poets Union, member 1976-, Treasurer 1983-85, Secretary 1978-79
• NSW Writers Centre, member 1992-
• South Coast Writers Centre, member 1997-
• Women in Publishing, member 1988-
• Women's Redress Press, member 1985-1996

Poetry and prose fiction

Books of poetry

• Head, Heart & Stone (Fling Poetry, Melbourne, 1982)
• Redshift/Blueshift (Five Islands Press, Wollongong, 1988)
• Shining Like a Jinx (Amelia, Calif., USA, 1992)
• Day Easy Sunlight Fine in Hot Collation (Penguin, Melbourne, 1995)
• Mortifications & Lies (forthcoming)

Small collections/pamphlets of poetry &/or prose

• Delta (CPP, Sydney, 1978)
• Taking heart (CPP, Sydney, 1987)
• Zoom poems (CPP, Sydney, 1988)
• On the railway near the sea (Wollongong, 1992)
• The event horizon (Wollongong, 1992)
• Words on Words (1998)
• Epitaphs (1998)
• Being there at the birth (1998)
• Death of a poet (1988)
• the other river (1998)

Recorded

• Raptors Blue Audio cassette (Well Sprung Productions, Sydney, 1989) with music by Rob Cousins
• CD from Wollongong Voices, includes 'The Final Vinyl' (forthcoming)

Children's book

• Little Wombat (New Holland, Sydney, 1996)

In major anthologies:

• Australian verse from 1805: a continuum ed. Geoffrey Dutton (Currey O'Neil Ross, 1984) includes 'Coffee'
• Contemporary Australian Poetry: an anthology ed. John Leonard (Houghton Mifflin Australia, October, 1990) includes 'Definition poem: pissed as a parrot' and 'Overtime' pp 200-202
• Off the Record ed. PiO (Penguin, Melbourne, 1985) includes 'Breakfast', 'Coffee', 'Dialogue', 'How to draw a well', 'Lady Gedanke rings home', 'One more missile for the road' pp 97-100
• Influence ed. Peter Skrzynecki (Transworld, Sydney, 1997) included 'Under the influence of Lot 21, Main Road, Schadenvale' (prose)
• The Oxford Book of Australian Light Verse selected by R. F. Brissenden and Philip Grundy (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1991) includes 'Definition Poem: Pissed as a Parrot'
• The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poetry ed. Jennifer Strauss (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1993) includes 'Breakfast' and 'Lady Gedanke Rings Home' pp 251-253
• The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse ed. Peter Porter (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997) includes 'Amelia Earhart flies out from Lae, NG' pp 239-240
• The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets ed. Kate Llewellyn and Susan Hampton (Penguin Australia, Melbourne, 1986) includes 'Definition Poem: Pissed as a Parrot', 'Lady Gedanke writes to the painter' pp 236-238
• The Sting in the Wattle: Australian Satirical Verse ed. Philip Neilsen (University of Queensland Press, 1993) includes: 'Definition Poem: Pissed as a Parrot', 'Breakfast', 'Branded' and 'Bequest' pp 247-253
• Virago Book of Wicked Verse ed. Jill Dawson (Virago Press, UK, 1992) includes 'Definition Poem: Pissed as a parrot' pp 24-25

And other anthologies of poetry or prose:

• Anthology of the Illawarra, ed. Ron Pretty (Five Islands Press, 1994) includes 'The unquiet city' pp 161-162
• Blithe Parrot (Cockatoo Coop, 1982) includes 'Eaves'
• A book to perform poems by ed. Rory Harris and Peter McFarlane (Australian Association for the Teaching of English, 1985) includes 'Branded'
• Cold collation (Cockatoo Coop, 1984) includes 'Double image', 'Lady Gedanke writes to the painter', 'The unquiet city'
• Eat the Ocean ed. Lizz Murphy (Literary Mouse Press, Perth, 1997) includes 'The man in the window' pp 89-92 (prose) and 'The Island' pp 82-88 (prose)
• The Last Poet's Choice ed. P. Roberts (Island Press, Sydney, 1979) includes 'Imperatrice' pp 36-37
• Mattoid Diary (Mattoid, 1984) includes 'Dialogue' (opp. Oct 21-27)
• Minute to Midnight: New Writing for Peace and Disarmament ed. Christopher Kelen, Anna Couani et al. (Red Spark Press, 1985) includes 'One more missile for the road' pp 81-82
• On the line (Cockatoo Coop, Sydney, 1985) includes 'Bus notebooks 3 & 4' (prose)
• Outlook: An Anthology of Australian Poetry for Senior Secondary Students ed. R. Pretty (Longman Cheshire, 1992) includes 'Definition Poem: Pissed as a Parrot'
• Outrider: a Year of Australian Literature 90 ed. Manfred Jurgensen (Outrider/Phoenix Publications, 1990) includes 'Walking to Antarctica' (prose)
• Repression anthology eds Sue Moss & Karen Witek Knight (forthcoming) will include 'The Valley of Tears' and 'Where Edges Are'
• She's a train and she dangerous: Women alone in the 1990s ed. Lizz Murphy (Literary Mouse Press, Perth, 1994) includes 'A Scintilla of Angels' (prose)
• The Song in Your Head: A Way to Write and Read Poetry ed John Foulcher (Rigby Heinemann, forthcoming) includes 'the worst is local'
• Sustaining the Earth: An Anthology of Green Poems in English, ed Hedwig Hinzmann & Norbert Platz (Volker Lopau, Germany, 1996) includes 'Geckos'
• Up from Below: Poems of the 1980s ed. I. Coates et al. (Redress Press, 1987) includes 'Overtime', 'Unquiet city' pp 229-230
• Voices of the Downs ed. Kate Fawns and Angelica Fremd-Wiese (Writers at Work, Toowoomba 1994) includes 'On (the) edge in Toowoomba' pp 21-22

Installations

• 'Split' (poem) included in Community Prayer Wheel installation (Wallace Burns) May 1997

In journals